Don Mee Choi
Don Mee Choi is a Korean-American poet and
translator. Don Mee Choi
Life
Don Mee Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea,
educated in the United States, and now lives in Berlin,
Germany. Choi's works of documentary poetry draw
on family history as well as archival material to Born Seoul, South Korea
interrogate "the overlapping histories of Korea and the Nationality American
U.S."[1] In addition to her own poetry, she is a prolific Education California Institute of the Arts
translator of modern Korean women poets, including BFA '84; MFA '86
several books by Kim Hyesoon.[2] Genre Poetry
Notable DMZ Colony
works
Awards Notable Whiting Award, MacArthur
awards Fellow, Guggenheim
2011: Whiting Award Fellowship, National Book
2012: Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize for Award for Poetry
All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim
Hyesoon
2016: Lannan Literary Fellowship Award
2019: Griffin Poetry Prize Award for translation of Autobiography of Death from the Korean
written by Kim Hyesoon
2020: National Book Award for Poetry for DMZ Colony
2021: Guggenheim Fellowship Poetry[3]
2021: MacArthur Fellows Program[4]
2021: Royal Society of Literature International Writer[5]
Works
Books
The Morning News is Exciting, Action Books, 2010, ISBN 9780979975561
Petite Manifesto, Vagabond Press, 2014 (chapbook)
Freely Frayed,ᄏ=q, & Race=Nation, Wave Books, 2014 (chapbook)
Sky Translation, Goodmorning Menagerie A Chapbook Press, n.d. (chapbook)
Hardly War, Wave Books, 2016
DMZ Colony, Wave Books, 2020
Mirror Nation, Wave Books, (Publication date 4/2/24)
Translations
Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers by Kim Hyesoon, Action Books, 2005
Anxiety of Words: Contemporary Poetry by Korean Women, Zephyr Press, 2006
All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon, Action Books, 2011
Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream by Kim Hyesoon, Action Books, 2014
I'm OK, I'm Pig! by Kim Hyesoon, Bloodaxe Books, 2014
Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon, Bloodaxe Books, 2018 (winner of the 2019 Griffin
Poetry Prize)
Ahn Hak-sŏp #4 by Ahn Hak-sŏp and Don Mee Choi, The Green Violin, 2018 (chapbook)
Yi Sang: Selected Works by Yi Sang, ed. Don Mee Choi, Wave Books, 2020
Anthology
Yasuhiro Yotsumoto Ming Di Don Mee Choi, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Hyesoon Kim, Trilingual
Renshi, Vagabond Press, 2015, ISBN 9781922181442
References
1. Gullander-Drolet, Claire (2022-10-27). "On Not Translating: Don Mee Choi's Anti-neocolonial
Poetics - Post45" (https://post45.org/2022/10/on-not-translating-don-mee-chois-anti-neocolo
nial-poetics/). Retrieved 2024-04-06.
2. "Don Mee Choi, poet" (https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/don-mee-choi). Wave Books.
Retrieved 2022-10-14.
3. "Don Mee Choi" (https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/don-mee-choi/). John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
4. "This Year's MacArthur 'Genius Grants' Were Just Announced—Here's The Full Winner List"
(https://www.npr.org/2021/09/28/1037957309/macarthur-genius-grants-full-list-2021). NPR.
September 28, 2021. Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20210928172233/https://www.n
pr.org/2021/09/28/1037957309/macarthur-genius-grants-full-list-2021) from the original on
2021-09-28. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
5. "Inaugural RSL International Writers Announced" (https://rsliterature.org/inaugural-rsl-interna
tional-writers-announced/). Royal Society of Literature. 30 November 2021. Retrieved
3 December 2023.
External links
Kathleen Rooney, " 'Hardly War,' by Don Mee Choi" (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/b
ooks/review/hardly-war-by-don-mee-choi.html?_r=0) (review), The New York Times, April
22, 2016.
Profile at the Whiting Foundation (http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/don-mee-choi#/)
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don_Mee_Choi&oldid=1257636690"
